Verona's Frontier

When Barbarian threats drew near,
To Verona's walls, he'd banish fear.
A palace stood, on northern ground,
Where Gothic strength and poise were found.

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War poet whose visceral, anti-war verse exposed the horrors of trench warfare; killed one week before Armistice.

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